TrayFoods

The problem.

Campus food ordering involved three groups with no shared system between them: customers placing orders, vendors preparing them and student delivery personnel completing them. TrayFoods connected all three through mobile and web applications, which meant money had to reach two different kinds of recipient and dispatch had to be coordinated rather than arranged by hand.

My part in it.

Founder and CEO, and sole engineer from 2021 to 2023. The team later expanded with dedicated finance and support functions.

The shape of the challenge.

Payments had to split into vendor and courier payouts rather than settling into a single account, and dispatch across student delivery personnel had to be automated. The product ran as a real operation, so engineering decisions carried directly into daily deliveries.

What went into it.

1. 01

   Founded and built a campus food delivery platform connecting customers, vendors and delivery personnel through Ionic mobile and web applications.

2. 02

   Developed a Django/GraphQL backend with PostgreSQL on Railway, AWS media storage and automated CI/CD deployment.

3. 03

   Integrated Paystack payments, vendor and courier payouts, and dispatch automation; onboarded 10+ vendors and 20+ student delivery personnel.

4. 04

   Served as sole engineer from 2021 to 2023 and later expanded the team with dedicated finance and support functions.